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Al Masaeed, Khaled – Modern Language Journal, 2020
Adopting a translanguaging perspective, this article examines interlocutors' orientations to, and use of, multidialectal and multilingual practices during second language (L2) Arabic conversations-for-learning beyond the classroom in a study abroad program. The study argues that participants' translanguaging practices challenge monolingual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Semitic Languages, Study Abroad, Dialects
Midwah, Ali Al; Alhawary, Mohammad T. – Modern Language Journal, 2020
The present study investigated the role of Arabic diacritics in word recognition and their impact on Arabic L2 learners' reading speed, accuracy, and comprehension at different stages of Arabic L2 acquisition. Fifty-four English L2 learners of Arabic from 3 proficiency levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) participated in the study. They…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Rate, Accuracy
Tannenbaum, Michal; Michalovich, Amir; Shohamy, Elana – Modern Language Journal, 2020
Israel's Education Ministry invited proposals for the development of a new multilingual policy for the country's education system. We submitted a proposal for an 'engaged language policy' approach, which helps schools to conceptualize and develop a policy that best fits them ideologically and demographically. This study aimed to map teachers' and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Arabs, Jews, Language Planning
Azaz, Mahmoud – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This study examines first language (L1) English transfer in the acquisition of plural noun semantics in second language (L2) Arabic. Drawing on previous research on the L2 acquisition of plural noun interpretation, the study presents and discusses new production data of specific and generic definite plurals by English-speaking learners of Arabic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
Golonka, Ewa; Bowles, Anita; Silbert, Noah; Kramasz, Debra; Blake, Charles; Buckwalter, Tim – Modern Language Journal, 2015
Despite years of research on vocabulary learning and teaching, relatively little is known about strategies for effective mastery of vocabulary in less commonly taught languages. The current study focuses on English native speakers studying Modern Standard Arabic to identify effective ways to present and learn new vocabulary using tasks varying in…
Descriptors: Role, Vocabulary Development, Semitic Languages, Mastery Learning
Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas – Modern Language Journal, 2014
This study compares Arabic L1, L2, and heritage speakers' (HS) knowledge of plural formation, which involves concatenative and nonconcatenative modes of derivation. Ninety participants (divided equally among L1, L2, and heritage speakers) completed two oral tasks: a picture naming task (to measure proficiency) and a plural formation task. The…
Descriptors: Native Language, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
Alsadoon, Reem; Heift, Trude – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This study explores the impact of textual input enhancement on the noticing and intake of English vowels by Arabic L2 learners of English. Arabic L1 speakers are known to experience "vowel blindness," commonly defined as a difficulty in the textual decoding and encoding of English vowels due to an insufficient decoding of the word form.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Eye Movements
Schwartz, Mila; Gorbatt, Naomi – Modern Language Journal, 2017
In this study, we explored how major theoretical principles and concepts in the mediation strategies of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory are realized in an Arabic-Hebrew preschool in Israel. The aim of this study was to examine how teachers encourage children to use their second language (L2) during teacher-child conversations. In particular, as a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Sociocultural Patterns
Haim, Orly – Modern Language Journal, 2015
The study addresses the degree of transfer of literacy dimensions of academic proficiency (AP), that is, reading comprehension and writing, across three languages--Russian (L1), Hebrew (L2), and English (L3)--and investigates whether a common conceptual source underlies the linguistic and cognitive operations of the trilingual learner (Grosjean,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Holistic Approach, Immigrants
Winke, Paula; Gass, Susan; Sydorenko, Tetyana – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This study investigates caption-reading behavior by foreign language (L2) learners and, through eye-tracking methodology, explores the extent to which the relationship between the native and target language affects that behavior. Second-year (4th semester) English-speaking learners of Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish watched 2 videos…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages, Chinese, Russian
Trentman, Emma – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article provides a snapshot of the experiences of 18 students studying abroad in Cairo, Egypt. Using a modified version of the language contact profile (Freed, Segalowitz, & Dewey, 2004), I investigate their language use and find that students use English more than they use Arabic and that there is considerable individual variation in…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Semitic Languages, Foreign Countries, English
Pavlenko, Aneta; Driagina, Viktoria – Modern Language Journal, 2007
This study compared the uses of emotion vocabulary in narratives elicited from monolingual speakers of Russian and English and advanced American learners of Russian. Monolingual speakers differed significantly in the distribution of emotion terms across morphosyntactic categories: English speakers favored an adjectival pattern of emotion…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Russian, Native Speakers
Elkhafaifi, Hussein – Modern Language Journal, 2005
Anxiety plays an important role in foreign language (FL) students' classroom performance. This study presents the results of the first empirical examination of the effect of general FL learning anxiety on students' achievement in an Arabic course and of listening anxiety on students' listening comprehension. The data came from 2 measures of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Semitic Languages, Classroom Environment, Anxiety